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Praemium moves Smartfunds into UAE

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... products to the United Arab Emirates, leveraging a local bank's distribution network as it expands its footprint in the Gulf region. The ASX-listed SMA provider has gained regulatory approval from the Securities and Commodities Authority to offer ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... by Milliman financial risk management consultant Jeff Gebler, who argued that behavioural economics "has revealed the vast gulf that exists between what people say they want and how they behave." To illustrate this, Gebler compared data from the Household ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... fortune in FY17, representing a 140% jump since the Global Financial Crisis, according to an Oxfam analysis. The Oxfam Growing Gulf Between Work and Wealth paper found Australia's richest 1% had more wealth than the bottom 70% of Australians combined. ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... A$5.6 billion loss reported in second half 2015FY. The results take into account the A$8.1 billion half yearly charge for Gulf of Mexico compensation. UK's Warwick Business School professor David Elmes, an expert in the global energy sector, said the ...

Lifecycle funds startlingly varied

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
New research into lifecycle superannuation funds shows little consistency between approaches and vast gulfs in exposure to equity risk across similar age cohorts. Industry researcher Rainmaker has turned its eye to the product segment as the depth of ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... jump on news it agreed to settle US federal and state claims worth up to $US18.7 billion ($A24.47 billion) over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill. In eurozone trading, Frankfurt's DAX 30 ended 0.73 per cent lower at 11,099.35 points and in Paris the CAC ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... rebounded, lifted by a report showing a decline in US crude production and a deadly explosion and fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate for May delivery, surged $US2.49 to close at $US50.09 a barrel ...

Asia already benefiting from fall in oil prices

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... trade and current account deficit. BlackRock also said that emerging market producers such as Venezuela, Russia and several Gulf nations are "likely to suffer" and to "come under intense pressure, which is only likely to grow the longer oil prices remain ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... inside OPEC arise from the differences in its members' oil industries and economies. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and other Gulf producers can extract oil cheaply. They also -- Iraq excepted -- have a lot of cash in the bank. As a result, they can withstand ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... "State-owned producer Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Saudi Aramco, yesterday lowered the premium for Arab Light relative to U.S. Gulf Coast by 45 cents a barrel to the least since December". Which OPEC country would cry, "me too", me three"? Why don't they ...